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Thanks Ikey. This was a great guide. It worked for me with only 1 tiny adjustment. When I typed wget http://releases.compiz-fusion.org/compo ... .4.tar.bz2tar xjf emerald-0.8.4.tar.bz2 I got the message "permission denied". Luckily, by just entering the URL it downloaded immediately and I was then able to tar it.

I got Emerald running on LMDE Sid branch. I was unable to get it to run by itself so I had to create a bash file to start it after login.

Edit: Not sure if this will be helpful but I'm putting the steps I took after installing it for reference to anyone having the same problem as I did. Kept getting the "WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug!" Message before when just doing "compiz --replace &" in the terminal. Lol! I definately still have alot to learn!

Create a blank file and name it whatever (mine was compiz.sh). I put mine in my Document folder where I usually keep track of files but that's not important. As Ikey suggested in the forums I put this in the script.

Use the terminal where the script is located : chmod +x compiz.shThis makes the file executable.

Now all that's left is to put it in the start-up program list so it runs when you start LMDE.

Menu --> Preferences --> Start-Up Applications

Click Add and type in the name of your script and discription so you remember what it's there for.In the command box use the browse button to locate where you saved your script. My command scriptended up being : bash /home/damian/Documents/compiz.sh

With luck this will allow Emerald to run on LMDE like it does on mine if it doesn't run by default.

Whereas it seems that you are providing a single .deb. Not sure what would happen if emerald comes into a proper Debian repo and you try to upgrade the single .deb provided.Also there is now a repo available. Not tried it on testing yet:

ikey wrote:I actually set up the repo with the intent of building the package you've linkedthere ugh, a static .deb would only do "for the time being"The repo is.. 2 days old? if that. Thanks for the links, I'll try to get them builtlater. Good point about it being in a main repo, which, obviously, is whyit isn't

I'll try when I've got time.. got meetings all over the place atm, and its02:36AM! Probably be done tomorrow

Although fiddling around with LMDE is showing lots of little bugs and such but it solves a few problems that I was having with regular mint 9 so im gonna stick with it and hope that these problems get fixed.

Although fiddling around with LMDE is showing lots of little bugs and such but it solves a few problems that I was having with regular mint 9 so im gonna stick with it and hope that these problems get fixed.

good for you ... i managed to completely wipe out my video with the instructions i found there .... i dont even know how to get into it now to revert my settings all i get is a black screen with a blinking curser

eightup1 wrote:.. i managed to completely wipe out my video with the instructions i found there .... i dont even know how to get into it now to revert my settings all i get is a black screen with a blinking curser

are you able to choose "recovery mode" from the grub menu?from there you could follow the installation instructions on http://smxi.org/site/install.htmin order to install smxi which gives you the option when using it to setup a xorg.conf file andchecks to make sure you have the correct video drivers installed, removing incompatible ones.

ikey wrote:Here's something for all you compiz lovers out there.Compiz is darned pretty for the most part, but its missing one vitalcomponent in LMDE... Emerald. So let's try hitting that nail on thehead right now and get ourselves some emerald action.

Disclaimer: I fully expect to see screenshots in response. kthxbai.

The easy wayRealised that patching and building emerald from source isn't the mostuser-friendly thing in the world.. so I've built a Debian package. As it goesI have nowhere to host it (i.e. no repo ) so I've stuck it on ompldr for themoment until someone hosts it for me (hint hint)

UpdateI just stuck a really simple repo on my website, it has nothing but emerald Put this in /etc/apt/sources.list

Doing it the hard wayFirst things first, let's make sure all the required toolss are installed.Thankfully you only have a few to install here, so here goes. They'll pullany required dependencies in automatically.

That's it! Now its time to configure Compiz to use Emerald. Go to "ccsm", akaCompiz Config Settings Manager. You need to activate "Decoration" from withinccsm. All that's left to do now is choose a theme.

Lot's of emerald themes exist on http://www.gnome-look.org, have a goodlook around. Unfortunately my computer as it is is way too weak to even run compiz,I just thought I'd teach the community how to beautify their desktops and enjoy theLMDE release even more than they already do.

Thats the order they need to be started in. Well I hope this guide was useful to someone

Kind Regards,Ikey Doherty

when i added deb http://packages.ikey-doherty.com/ debian main to my /etc/apt/sources.list i got the following error message after i refreshed my update manager W: GPG error: http://packages.ikey-doherty.com debian Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY C216B00346D35A49 can somebody help me